With a sharp nod, Wyatt snapped, “Go! But watch your backs we don’t know how many there might be.”
Casper had rushed headlong into the grey smoke, and although Wyatt knew it had to be Casper’s maharishi in his misty form, it was still disconcerting entering into the darkness, not knowing what he would find.
“Rain!” Jude shouted, causing the hairs on the back of Wyatt’s neck to stand on end.
What the fuck was going on?
“Rain? Rain, are you hurt?” Wyatt shouted, damn next to losing his mind thinking that his mate might be harmed or even fighting death right now, and Wyatt was lost in the fucking mist from hell unable to see his hand in front of his face.
“He took off!” Jude shouted. “He got scared, shifted and took off.”
“Shit!” Wyatt said, rushing from the visual barrier Smoky brought to them all to try and locate where Rain might have gone.
Gods, he wished the mental link he shared with his thunder was the same when in human form, but it wasn’t. Right now he had no way to contact his men and let them know that Rain was missing, or to even look out for him.
“Fuck!” Wyatt hissed as the sound of bullets could be heard from across the river.
Moments went by as Wyatt made sure he wasn’t a huge target by hiding behind a tree until his phone rang. Quickly grabbing it, he hissed, “Talk to me.”
“We got them!” Asod shouted from across the river. “Two are still alive, but they’re injured.”
Sighing in relief that the fuckers were in custody, Wyatt snarled, “Bring them here. I’m going to go look for Rain. Jude can look the bastards over while I find my mate.”
“Find Rain? Where the hell did he go?” Asod asked.
“I don’t know. Jude said he shifted and took off. I think his animal didn’t like the danger they were in and forced his shift,” Wyatt answered.
“There could be others out there, Wyatt. Don’t go alone,” Asod insisted.
Knowing Asod was right didn’t stop Wyatt from wanting to rush head on into a possible trap.
Hearing footsteps, Wyatt watched as Ryan and his team headed back to the cabin. “I’ll have Ryan, Omar and River with me.”
“I’ll have Orca scan around to make sure he didn’t somehow get to this side of the river as well,” Asod said.
“Sounds good. We’ll be as quick as we can and get back so we can question these sons of bitches,” Wyatt angrily stated, then hung up calling out to Ryan.
* * * *
“We’re never going to find him this way. We have to shift,” Ryan said.
Rain almost ran out of his hidey hole, when he heard Ryan speak, but stopped when Wyatt said, “We can’t do that, Ry. We don’t know if there might be others out here. It’s already dangerous for us to call out for him.”
“But, Wyatt, you and he are mates. There has to be a mate thing that can help us out here,” Ryan said.
Was Ryan talking about the mind link? He had to be.
Rain had been told that some species had those, and he’d hoped he and Wyatt might share one now that they bonded… but if they did, Wyatt hadn’t shared it with him.
Why?
Did Wyatt not want to share something so intimate?
That kind of hurt.
“A mate thing? What the hell do you mean by mating thing?”
Hearing Wyatt’s confusion made Rain feel a tad bit better. Knowing that his mate might not have used their link because he didn’t know about it was better then where his mind was going.
